Formulaic language in native speakers: Triangulating psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics, and education

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 61-78

  Ellis, Nick C ^a   Simpson Vlach, Rita ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

An academic formulas list; English language instruction; Formulaic language; Frequency; Mutual information; Psycholinguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649222999     PISSN: 16137027     EISSN: 16137035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CLLT.2009.003     Document Type: Article

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